Astronomers Stunned to Stumble on 'Cosmic Horseshoe' With a Black Hole the Size of 36 Billion Suns Experts have detected a humongous extraterrestrial object in space. This phenomenon was located in an ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Why Do Black Holes Form? Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is squeezed into a very small space. Cram enough ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

ESA's Euclid mission is exploring the "dark universe." The space telescope's latest images offer fascinating new insights.

Cosmic Horseshoe, showing the Einstein ring formed by gravitational lensing. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble A team of researchers, led by Carlos Melo-Carneiro, has revealed the presence of an ultra-massive ...

Quantum mechanics is used to propose that black hole singularities could be the start of a new phase, rather than a point of destruction.

Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large ... physicist Albert Einstein predicted in 1915, gravitational lensing causes the light from the system's more distant galaxy ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope discovered that the rotation of the galaxies goes against what ...